Thursday and Friday of this week were consumed by workshopping all ten drafts of our final audio essays. Both days were long, rewarding and difficult. It was my first experience workshopping anything, or being workshopped, and I think most of the class was a little nervous. A writing workshop environment is so intense because you …
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Greetings from the Audio Essay! So, after reading an awesome article by Brendan Baker (here's the link: http://transom.org/2014/using-music-brendan-baker/ ) our class spent the day split between peer editing our personal essay and a very fun, creative sound compilation exercise. I think the bigger sound nerds in our class got more from the Brendan Baker article than I …
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The second week of The Audio Essay started out on a note of high anxiety for me; we all made a professional story pitch. Over the weekend, our assignment was to create a formal pitch for a personal essay to debut on a radio program. Theoretically, if our pitch did well in class, it was …
Dobar dan! (Good afternoon!) Two days ago I experienced one of the most epic days I have yet to experience at CC. John Gould (one of our professors) even said that it was one of his favorite days at CC, and he’s been here a lot longer than I have! Our final performances took place …
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For the first time since starting to provide words for Colorado College's blog, I am going to relate the content of the post to the title: on Tuesday our class will be presenting our final performances for the block... jet lagged. We have safely arrived back in the United States of America as of about …
Hello! I got back to CC about 24 hours ago and now that I've recovered a bit from the epic plane journey, I figure it’s time to share some more stories with you while they're fresh! 1. We did a workshop with Dah in which we envisioned the floor as a map of the world, …
Zdravo! Belgrade is a picturesque city. Our hotel sits on a large traffic circle through which trolleys and busses and cars come careening with little regard for one another. A few blocks down the main shootoff of the roundabout you'll come to a large plaza with a statue of a man riding a horse. A …
1. We saw an old man walking his pet bunny. Apparently pet bunnies are a thing here. 2. We went to the ruins of the National Library. It was bombed during WWII and has been kept intact ever since. Dah Teatar, the theatre group we are working with, did a site-specific performance there commemorating this. …
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Good Morning! I say that because I'm conditioned to say that when I wake up from a couple hours of slumber. For example, now. The problem remains, though, that it is 8:00Pm. I probably shouldn't have taken a three hour nap, in terms of killing jet lag, but the weight of my eyelids at 4:30 …
